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Yup. Best expected/unexpected surprise ever. I shall be teaching it next year

If you paint that skin wolf like something out of a horror movie, Gits... that will be amazing, and rather intimidating- I can't really sit through even rather tame horror movies!

inmygravenimage wrote:Yup. Best expected/unexpected surprise ever. I shall be teaching it next year

What do you teach, Graven? Film? I ask because I'm a teacher, too, and I'm always curious when people say they'll be taching fun/interesting films.

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Gits.

Don't apologize Yb... it's the occasional hijacking that makes the thread interesting.

Besides, we're talking about one of my favorite films!

There's quite a lot of teachers on the boards, I notice; filbert's a physics teacher, for instance.
I teach English (middle/high school equivalent) though I do a fair bit of Media as part of that: this year my seniors did Psycho and Let Me In (along with Catcher in the Rye and Strange Fruit, amongst others); horror's a good genre to focus on as the markers are so explicit. Plus, it grabs the students so that they can engage with critical analysis in a way that seems meaningful to them. Also, a lot of my kids this year were doing drama so there's reasonable amount of overlap in terms of lighting palettes, mise en scene etc.
I'm thinking of doing Rear Window as the main movie next year; I'm sorely tempted to do Blade Runner again, but it was wayyyy over their heads last time around (although next year's lot are a generally more able class).

And THAT (Blade Runner) is my absolute favorite movie of all time. Actually just bought a copy of the "final cut" for my iPhone. Woo-hoo! Blade Runner on-demand!

Can I hang out in your class 'Teach?

Technically, I teach History, but I work in a humanities department and get to teach culture. I taught Blade Runner a couple of years ago in a Cyborg Culture course. It's one of my favorite films, too. My students loved Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Great book. I've been thinking about a course exploring Philp Dick, Stanislaw Lem, and Kobo Abe....

Hmmm, so if the skin wolf is jost post-transformation, will there be bits of blood/ gore around the edges of the torn skin?

Looks like a pretty amazing model, a pity it was a bad cast.. I had the same with my boarding marine but good old FW had kept some back, so I got a replacement for mine.

You did a great job straightening it up. I look forward to seeing how this goes, as a SW player it could give me inspiration for my TWC.

With regards to Wyomings earlier comment about wulfen, I would also love to see something really dynamic and impressive to represent the wulfen. Its actually a pity FW canned or have gone back to the drawing board with their concept model of Bran Redmaw shown at Games Day.. they had planned to do Bran as 2 models, pre and post transformation on 40mm bases, but just couldnt figure out how to go about doing it.
The Wulfen would be about Space Marine size or slightly bigger (maybe termi sized on a 40mm base, after all there are not many minis that give you d6+1 rending attacks, beyond maybe stealers or SC 's).... bear in mind when William King wrote the first Space Wolf book, GW may have been between dex's or something, but he started as an initiate and then a scout (the first encounter with Madox), scouts arent full marines and I cant remember off-hand but he may just have had his first gene seed implant, (the wulfen helix from the blood drink they have) so wasnt matured and as gig as a normal marine... will have to read it again to confirm though.

Anyways back on topic, I have never seen the hordes stuff, so I will be watching with interest. Nice Skin wolf

Progress!

Oooh very nice! Looking realistic.

I resisted the urge to put a tatoo'd heart with "MOM" on the inside on the skin on his left shoulder...

Gitsplitta wrote:I resisted the urge to put a tatoo'd heart with "MOM" on the inside on the skin on his left shoulder...

Yeah, but when he reads it, it would say "WOW"!

Seriously, though, it's starting to look kind of... creepy.

Well, that's the idea. I think I'll work on the belt and wrist bands next before I go back to detail the face. Anyone have any suggestions for the color of the claws?

Gits, you've won me over once again, and I've changed my mind- this looks absolutely fantastic with the direction you're taking it. Objection withdrawn!!

The dark red edge of the flesh really makes it work, I think.

Best of all I got to use my favorite highlighting technique on the flesh. Easy and very satisfying... wet blending. Just layer after layer of translucent versions of the varying flesh colors... they blend naturally as long as you go from dark to light, and the end result is very dynamic.

I used to do my Mantis Warriors this way, but pragmatism made me switch to the airbrush (which also does a very nice job but isn't as intrinsically satisfying for some reason... perhaps it's the "mechanical" vs. the "human" element).

I think for flesh like this your wet blending is perfect, and an airbrush might not give as good of an effect.

Is the fur going to be a different shade than the bare skin of the wolf?

Technically they already are (slightly)... it just doesn't look like it. My intention is to have him all white, but I may have modify that. But for now, I'll continue along my path and we'll see how things develop. In any case I'm unlikely to change the color of the skin as there's a lot of work in it already.

I should have qualified what I said- I basically meant if you were planning to make the contrast greater than it is or not. But it looks good as-is, too!

What is next for him, then?

Ah, well then the answer to your questions is unequivocally "yes". I've been pondering that actually. I need some clear definition between the skin and the fur. Just haven't sorted it out yet.

Next is the belt, drape and wrist bands.

I think a bit more contrast to the fur would work well. But that could change once the other bits are painted.

I don't disagree wyfox... just kind of a quandary as to how to accomplish it. Right now it's white with a Vallejo "pale wash" and then dry-brushed white over the top, so theoretically its pure white as the highlight. I could take some black wash and spot apply it in the deepest recesses, then go over each hair tuft and hand paint it white. That would really crank up the volume but would be a serious amount of work. Perhaps worth it... but something that needs careful consideration before jumping right in.

The fur does look pretty dirty though, which is not what I'm after... the white re-paint would address that to a degree. Alternately I could re-paint all the fur is something like SW Grey and then bring it up to white... but I'd rather not go there yet as that would entail a serious effort & that much paint would start to cover up detail.

Its probably the unfinished base thats throwing us off.

That said, i tend to reserve white for the very finest highlight, on the extremities, i find if you use too much white it can make a model look unfinished sort of. Just imo.

That's very true Vit. I often put the basic colors on my bases long before the model is actually finished just for this issue. I haven't done it here yet because I'm toying with changing the primary colors from my 40k "standard"... I want to do the rocks in red, like you'd find in the SW of the US.... and have picked up some special grass that's different from the grass I normally use.

Yet another thing that's "new" about this model that gives me pause.

Wasn't this supposed to be a "relaxing and fun" project?? I suppose starting a blog about it was probably not very "relaxing and fun" conducive...

Hahaha you need to take a nice relaxing break my friend.


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The red rocks sounds ace.

Heres a pic of the skin wolves by fw in case you havent seen em yet:

OOOh..... those are very cool!

Aren't there some kind of wolf beasties in the Space Wolf army? (besides Thunder Woves) Perhaps if someone was running a Luna Wolf army these would fit right in.

Hell id be tempted to run those as TWolves! Just ignore the rider and represent them, they could be mutated wulfen!

God damnit Gits, i dont need more ideas!

They would make awesome T-wolves... you could just model any special weapons on them (they're hooked hands are naturals for weapon holding). You could have boss dude riding the wolf on all fours, with the other wolves acting independently. Or just model the boss dude as one of the wolves and use some GS to make him a little more bad-*ss than the rest.



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OK, for those of you who are scratching your heads about my interpretation of this model.... WM got this for me from FW itself...

whalemusic360 wrote:

Forgeworld wrote:Many are the dark and nightmarish horrors that the Ruinous Powers have visited upon the world, yet few are as strange as the Skin Wolves of legend. The witch-curs’d and Chaos-tainted men and women afflicted with this gift from their unholy gods bear a mutation that does not show as a stigmata of the flesh, but instead lurks in the blood, a slumbering beast to be roused by dark sacrifice and unspeakable ritual.

When this horror is unleashed, there is no mere transformation from man into beast; instead a great humanoid wolf-thing bursts fully-formed from the body of the human. Lean and half-insane with Chaos-tainted hunger, the Skin Wolf is so-named for the scraps and tatters of flesh and chunks of gristle that cling to its hulking frame; all that remains of the human form it once bore. Only once battle is spent and their voracious hunger sated will the transformation be reversed, the flesh of the Skin Wolf collapsing into a pallid and terrible mass from which the human must tear itself free.

So... it appears I'm on the right track. Tip 'o the hat to the FW artists for nailing the sculpt so that even a neophyte can sort out the imagery.

Gits speaking of theses wolf like creatures could you do a size shot with yours and a dreadnought and a marine, pleaseeeee.

I could use these in my Dark Wolves army as either a Mark of the wolfen guy or do some serious converting into a contemptor/dreadnought.

The two on the right look very user friendly in vits pic from FW.

No problem Gir, send me a PM in about... oh... 7-9 hours in case I forget. Unfortunately it'll probably be 9 hours before I'm anywhere near my models.

Thats no probs Gits I'll be all tucked up in bed by then